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The document contains practice questions on probability assessments involving spinners, dice, and bags of balls or marbles. It includes tasks such as calculating expected outcomes, creating probability space diagrams, and drawing tree diagrams for various scenarios. The questions cover fundamental probability concepts including calculating probabilities for different outcomes and events.

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Probability_Practice_Questions

The document contains practice questions on probability assessments involving spinners, dice, and bags of balls or marbles. It includes tasks such as calculating expected outcomes, creating probability space diagrams, and drawing tree diagrams for various scenarios. The questions cover fundamental probability concepts including calculating probabilities for different outcomes and events.

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Probability Assessment - Practice Questions

1. A spinner has 8 equal sections numbered 1 to 8. It is spun 240 times.


How many times would you expect to get:
a) a score of 2
b) a score greater than 5
c) a score that is an even number

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2. A red die and a green die are both thrown. Display all the possible outcomes on a
probability space diagram.
a) Complete the diagram.
b) Find the probability of scoring:
i) A total of 9
ii) Less than 6
iii) even number

3. A bag contains 4 yellow balls and 6 purple balls. A ball is drawn and not replaced. Then a
second ball is drawn.
Draw a tree diagram to show all the possible outcomes.

4. A bag contains 7 orange balls (O), 5 black balls (B), and 4 white balls (W).
One ball is randomly selected. Find:
a) P(O)
b) P(O′)
c) P(W)
d) P(B′)

5. A bag contains 7 red marbles and 5 blue marbles.


Two marbles are drawn one after another without replacement.
Draw a tree diagram to show all possible outcomes.

6. A bag has 3 green balls, 4 yellow balls, and 2 white balls.


A ball is taken out at random.
Find:
a) P(Green)
b) P(Yellow)
c) P(White)
d) P(Not Green)

7. A coin is flipped and a die is rolled.


List all the possible outcomes.
Find the probability of getting:
i) Heads and an even number
ii) Tails and a number greater than 4

8. A spinner has 5 equal sections numbered 1 to 5. It is spun 100 times.


How many times would you expect to get:
a) a number greater than 2
b) an odd number

9. A bag has 8 blue, 3 red, and 5 green beads.


One bead is picked at random.
Find:
a) P(Blue)
b) P(Not Red)
c) P(Green or Red)

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